Didn't see the game but in general I think we've got way too many yellow cards happening. I actually think we've got way too much VAR going on in rugby - we're looking for reasons to stop the game, get people sent off and my personal view is, I'd rather a wrong decision (yes even if it's against my team) but a more flowing game than what's going on now.
What I'd do - in touch for a try, sure, check that.
Grounding - nope, ref, you make the call.
Forward pass - nope, ref, you make the call.
High tackles - nope, ref, you make the call as you see it. This slowing it down to see if a shoulder possibly touched a head, dunno, again seems like we look for a reason to send someone off.
Or let the refs do their job, no going back 5 phases to spot a small knock on, give each captain 2 challenges for everything. I mean what % of tries are awarded immediately, and what % are first checked to see if anything happened first?
For contact sports, going down a man, football, NFL, basketball, league, nowhere else is it as common as in rugby. Maybe ice hockey. Football a red card is not common, league the tackles seem way more hardcore than rugby, they seem far more tolerant to potential high tackles, yet I hardly see folk being sent off. Sure then people will simply give away penalties but all these other sports have found ways to overcome this, sure we can too.
Anyway, that's my mini rant.
